Intramolecular vinylsilane-oxocarbenium condensations: Concise assembly of cis-bicyclic ether arrays

Organic Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3507-3510

  Fearnley, Stephen Philip ^a,b,c   Lory, Pedro ^a,d  

^a LAMAR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d TIBOTEC BVBA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICYCLO COMPOUND; ETHER DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; SILANE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINYL DERIVATIVE; VINYLSILANE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

BICYCLO COMPOUNDS; CYCLIZATION; ETHERS, CYCLIC; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXYGEN; SILANES; STEREOISOMERISM; VINYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34548536350     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol071349v     Document Type: Article

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